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Show Page 6 The Utah The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Independent August 19, 1976 Continued from page iTOTlV 1 The Federal Election Commission is a Leftist racket headed by Tom Harris, late of the A.F.L.-C.I.O- .s Committee On Political Education, which he runs with administrative assistant Susan King, who was Washington Director of the radical National Committee for an Effective Congress. It is a national disgrace. union leaders have spent vast amounts of time and a fortune in their dues-paiprinting and mailing funds and telephone calls doing everything in their support power to destroy bells, stuff envelopes, and drive to the polls those who will vote for their man. Thumbs down means all this for you,, goes to your opponent there will be only a smear job known in labor circles as a voter education program. Big Labor plays the game so well that it has eclipsed the Democrat stance, our most famous Senatorial windbags are wholly owned subsidiaries of who couldn't get the A.F.L.-C.I.O- ., elected without union money and manpower. On the common-situ- s picketing but "organbill, something nobody ized labor wanted, only three Senators and fourteen Representatives who were not on Big Labors payroll voted for the bill. According to the Congressional Record for February 2, other Senators 1976, the forty-nin- e who voted to let the union bosses close down entire construction projects if so much as one union working anywhere on the job was not cosseted hold your hats had received three million, two hundred and thousand dollars from twenty-tw- o Labor Big during the election campaign of 1974. And the bill passed the House with the votes of two hundred workers. Yet, affects blue-collnally, all union contributions to the candidates chosen by the labor bosses are , on the theory that labor unions are virtuous, organizations. Not only has there never been an Attorney General of the United States so foolhardy as to notice the truly massive illegality of Big Labors heavy-foote- d meddling in the there is, at but electoral process, present, no chance at all that the Justice Department will ever develop an interest in that subject. The same can be said for the Internal Revenue Service, which prefers easier vic- Washington-base- er fifteen Congressmen who had re- Robert Carr John Burton Michigan Democrat Michigan Democrat California Democrat Bought for $88,355 Bought for $57,093 Bought for $37,430 Some of 100 Congressmen bought by d blue-coll- V Bob Traxler d ar for Governor George Wallace, just as they do all in their power to push acceptance of outrages like forced busNational Committee itself. Many of sing, which so strongly and adversely fi- dog-catch- fe ar Big Labor Mike Blouin Iowa Democrat Declared 1974 cash payoffs only. See Congressional Record, February 21, 1976. Bought for $35,200 r tax-exem- pt non-politic- al Allan Howe v James Santini Pat Schroeder Bought for $32,550 Bought for $28,050 Bought for $30,71 5 Alvin Baldus John Brademas Wisconsin Democrat Fithian Floyd Indiana Democrat Bought for $28,650 Bought for $22,425 Bought for $18,700 Colorado Democrat Nevada Democrat Utah Democrat f tims. Just for the record, Title 18, Sec- tion 610 of the U.S. Code prohibits labor organizations from making any direct or indirect payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money, or any services, or to any candianything of value date, campaign committee, or political party or organization in connection with any federal election. In the teeth of this, the union bosses disregard the law with impunity and , hand out more funds and services than any other organization in America, blatantly declaring that their goal is a Congress so subservient as to be That is, the' union bosses want to control over two thirds of all our Congressmen and Senators, so that they can override a Presidential veto. Thus making George Meany our de facto President. Further for the record, the Internal Revenue Code specifies that organizations under Sec-- . tion 501(c), which includes labor unions, may spend no substantial part of their income on supporting ... of ceived union money ninety-tw- o them having each received in excess of ten thousand dollars. The total payoff to Congressmen from Big Labor, in 1974, was nearly six million dollars. However, these cash contributions are as nothing compared to the vital political services which the union bosses provide. Everything, as we have noted, from expert political advice to the humblest chores can be provided for one candidate and withheld from his opponent. Washington lawyer Douglas Caddy discusses the matter at length in his aptly-title- d book, The Hundred Million Dollar Payoff. There are any number o interesting aspects to this. First of all, it it has been happens to be illegal illegal for years. Secondly, the hundred million is derived overwhelmingly from compulsory union dues. candidates or attempting to influThird, the union bosses have not the ence legislation. Yet Big Labor has an slightest interest in whether union entire Department of Legislation in members like the candidate the its own bureaucracy, and probably bosses choose to support. In fact, it is spends more on lobbying than any their distinctly undemocratic atti- other outfit in Washington with the tude that they must educate and exception of Common Cause. Common Cause is called the guide the rank and file. For in- and a public interArlington House published The Hundred Mil- peoples lobby lion Dollar Payoff in 1974, and the same au- est group. These are all the sort of thors How They Rig Our Elections in 1975. fine phrases Liberals can get by Both contain much documented information with wrapping around themselves beabout how Big Labor buys Congressmen and own the mass media and the phony "campaign or "election reforms cause they how the language is recently instituted. "Payoff is now available therefore control from Public Policy Press in paperback at $2.95. used. Common Cause has been veto-proo- f. tax-exem- pt Big Labors cash payoffs to its bought Congressmen in 1974 totalled $6 million, with contributions of $4 million more. Title 18, Section 610 of U.S. Code prohibits labor organizations from making any direct or indirect political payment, but Big Labor runs the Election Commission and does as it pleases. in-ki- nd These figures do not include roasted to a turn by Gary Allen in American Opinion for March 1975, so we will toast it only lightly here, just enough to indicate its origin in the Money-Medi- a Establishment and its function in reforming our society so that things operate more conveniently for the management. John Gardner, a member of the conspiratorial Council on Foreign Relations who is tied in with the Rockefellers eight ways to Sunday, rattled the can among his rich friends back in 1968 and came away with a few million dollars with which to start a citizens lobby to represent all us plain folks out here. But representation is not exactly the name of the political game; the game is rather the prevention of representation. Mr. Gardner might have done us all a real service had he studied the manner in which we citizens are systematically euchred and defrauded by thundering herds of professional manipulain New tors and political bunco-artist- s York and Washington. Most assuredly including John Gardner and Common Cause. Now, Common Cause frequently lays claim to having been the single outfit which pushed through all this electoral reform about which we have been hearing. The purpose, they say, is to deprive malefactors of great wealth of the ability to buy Congressmen. In fact, Common Cause was aggressively supported in this by ComBig Labor. The A.F.L.-C.I.Omittee on Political Education declared Labors desire on October 1, 1973, for a complete bar on any .s private contributions to- - federal candidates. Indiana Democrat in-ki- nd services. Ah yes, you get the point. Federal financing of federal election campaigns, including the Presidential primaries, was described by many Congressional opponents as a raid on the Treasury. One of a lengthy series, we need hardly add. Limitations on the contributions of individuals are supposed to be another reform. There are supposed to be limits on the amounts which can be spent on certain campaigns (usually so low as to make challenge of an incumbent chancy in the extreme), and the whole package includes enough reporting to guarantee employment to every bored housewife on the eastern seaboard. A visit to the newborn Federal Election Commission reveals the better part of one downtown Washington office buildof paper ing is already chock-fu- ll and pushers. In theory, at least, the candidates havent a scrap of privacy left, and have been placed on short rations to boot. All that has really happened is that the clout has been transferred from individuals to groups to Compublic interest groups like mon Cause, which can trash their victims from a pedestal of disinterested nobility; or to political committees like the National Committee for an Effective Conmulti-candida- te Comgress; or to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.- s mittee on Political Education. The new federal election law still prohibits labor unions from doing ninety-fiv- e percent of what they do to buy our Congressmen, but no 1 i'll- - i |